I built a search engine based on Bing's API. One of the core features is ranking paywalled sites lower, making their text grey (eg Hacker news), and putting a m

I built a search engine based on Bing's API. One of the core features is ranking paywalled sites lower, making their text grey (eg Hacker news), and putting a moneybag char in the link. My reasoning is the same as yours - there's nothing wrong with Paywalls, but they're no good in search results, since chances are, a given user doesn't have an account with an arbitrary paywalled site that shows up in search.